Register.



J. G. GARY.

REGISTER.

APPLICATION FILED 11110.18, 1012.

Patented Sept. 23, 1913.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 1.

J. G. GARY. REGISTER. AYPLIOATION FILED AUG.13, 1912.

1,073,957. Patented Sept. 23, 1913.

2 SHEETS-BHEBT 2.

Fgii

JAMES G; CARY, OF JACKSON, TENNESSEE.

REGISTER.

Specifica tien of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 23, It 913.

Application filed August 13, 1912. Serial No. 714,831.

1 '0 all whom 1 may concern:

Be it known that 1, JAMES G. GARY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Jackson, in the county of Madison and State of Tennessee, have invented new and useful Improvements in Registers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is a register for numbered ice coupon books, drafts, checks, and the like, by means of which the coupons, drafts, checks, or the like, of any number may be instantly found on the register to -facilitate the making of an entry or entries with respect thereto, my improved register comprising a series of consecutively numbered leaves, the opposed edges of two adjacent leaves, when the book is in open position, comprising a pair of sections, each page oil. a pair of sections being ruled to provide alined main spaces extending across the sections, said spaces being further ruled transversely to provide live sub spaces in each main space, the main spaces being numbered progressively from 0 to 9 and the sub spaces being consecutively numbered from 1 to 100 all of the odd numbers being on one section and the even numbers on the other, and the lowest number of the main and sub spaces beginning at the same edge Off the book, as hereinafter more fully de scribed and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings :--l*igure 1 is a plan of a register constructed in accordance with my invention and open at the first page. Fig. 2 is a similar view of the same, open at the third page, or page numbered 3 and representing three hundred. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view, showing a portion of a register designated as a Vregister. Fig. at is a similar view, showing a portion of a register designated as an X-register. Fig. 5 is a perspective View of a coupon book such as adapted for use in connection with my improved register.

My improved register is a blank book of suitable size and shape and is here shown as comprising a series of consecutively numbered leaves a, the opposite pages of two adjacent leaves, when the book is in open position, comprising a pair of sections Z)0. Each page of a pair of sections is ruled to provide alined main spaces extending across the sections and the said main spaces are further ruled transversely with common horizontal lines (Z to provide five stub spaces in each main space. The main spaces are numbered progressively from 0 to 9 said designating numbers being arranged in a column at between the sections. The sub spaces of each section are consecutively numbered from 1 to 100, all the odd numbers being on one section and the even numbers on the other. The lowest numbers oi the main and sub spaces begin at the same edge of the book. The numbers of the sub spaces are arranged in columns 0. The sectioi'is are also shown as ruled to form date columns 7', name columns 7, street or number columns 71, due columns 11, paid columns 7.: and Sold by columns l. These columns may be appropriately designated and adapted for containing entries or data (it any re quircd. nature and I would have it understood that I: am not limited in this respect.

The first page is numbered 0 and is for numbered coupons, drafts, checks and the like, running from 1 to 100 each of the other pages being nlnnbcred 1, 2, 3, or the like, to indicate corresponding hundreds.

To locate any desired number, it only necessary to turn to the page corresponding with the himdreds value oil said number and then refer to its units or tens value in the column 0, the group numbers or greatly fa.- cilitating this reference so that with a very little practice any number may be instantly found, and even without the conscious operation oi the mind.

The pages, in addition to being numbered to indicate hundred consecutively, are also preferably provided with corresponding indcx numbers 7), the edges being cut away as required to expose said index numbers.

]n practice, I propose to make my registcr in two sizes, a small size indexed from 0 to l-9 pages with a registering capacity of live thousand conseculim numbers, and a larger size indexed from Q to 99 pages with a registering capacity of ten thousand consecutive numbers. A register of five thousand capacity will be designated a V register as indicated in Fig. 3 and one of ten thousand capacity an X register as indicated in Fig. 1. When coupon books or articles of any kind are sold which require registering and to a number in excess oi: the capacity of either register, the serial letter A, which, in cttect is the same as the unit 1, will be printed to the right (it every consecutive number on such coupon l. ooks, and a V or an X will be printed to the left of or before each consec-.

,so on throughout the alphabet, the added letter indicating the designating value of the issue and of the register in which it is recorded, and the prefixed letter V or X indicating whether that issue is recorded in a register of five thousand capacity or one of ten thousand capacity, as the case may be.

' To estimate: If an order is'given for ten thousand ice coupon books numbered from one to ten thousand, consecutively, X would be printed before each and every consecutive number on such books andA after each of such numbers. If a second like order is given, X would be printed before each and every consecutive number on such books and B after each of such numbers. If a third like order is given, X would be printed before each and every consecutive number on such books and C after each of such numbers, and so on. Thus, a ticket from one of such books designated X 10,000 C as shown in Fig. 5 would indicate that such boo-k would be the last number found in a register of ten thousand capacity, and as it was marked with a C following the number, it would indicate that three of such registers had been filled, and, hence, thirty thousand such books had been sold and recorded. In other words, the ticket would indicate such facts and make it unnecessary to refer to the register to see. Should ice ticket books numbered from one to fivethousand be ordered, V would be printed before each number, to indicate that all the numbers it preceded would be found in a V register of five thousand capacity.

I claim V The herein described register for numbered coupons, checks, drafts and the like comprising a series of consecutively numbered leaves, the opposed pages of two adjacent leaves, when the book is in open position, comprising a pair of sections, each page of a pair of sections being ruled to pro-' vide alined main spaces extending across the sections, said spaces belng further ruled transversely to provide five sub spaces n each main space, the main spaces being numbered progressively from 0 to 9 and the sub spaces 'of each section being (1on1 secutively numbered from l to 100 all the odd numbers being on one section and the even numbers on the other and the lowest number of the main and sub spaces begin- Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

' Washington, D. C. l 

